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Mr moneybags: How the Sh500 note came to be known as Jirongo

Five hundred shillings note displayed on white background. [File, Standard]

The noise and commotion startled me. I was busy on my typewriter working on a feature article when shouting and loud arguments erupted from the reception area. Then he stomped into my office with two hefty bodyguards in tow.

“It is you that I have come to see. It is you that I have come to talk to” he told me.

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